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1937 Admin info, Statistics and Classification added
Today named the ‘Chennai Port’ it has a Terminal Shunting Yard and runs its own Railway operations inside the harbour. The Port is having railway lines running up to 68 kms.
==1937 Report==
The 1937 ‘History of Indian Railways’<ref name=Hist1937>[https://ia801605.us.archive.org/30/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.36650/2015.36650.India-Railway-Board-History-Of-Indian-Railways-Constructed-And-In-Progress.pdf US Archive .org pdf download of ‘History Of Indian Railways, constructed and in progress’, 31 March 1937 by ‘The Government of India - Railway Department’ page 295 pdf 338]; Retrieved 5 Aug 2020</ref> reported as follows:-
*The Madras Port Trust Railway consists of 17.17 miles of mixed gauge railway (5 feet 6 inch and Metre) of which only 1.70 miles have been passed by the Government Inspector of Railways for the carriage of passengers. The railway is connected with the Madras and South Mahratta Railway Co Ltd (S&SMR) (broad gauge) at Royapuram and the South Indian Railway Co Ltd(SIR) (metre gauge) at Madras Beach Station. The railway is used for receiving, delivering, transporting, booking and despatching only such goods and carrying only such passengers as enter or leave the Trust’s premises by sea ...
*The Railway was gradually brought into being for the better performance of the services which the Trust, purely as a Port Trust, is enabled, under its act, to perform for the public within its premises. Up to the 1st November 1916 the duty of delivering incoming goods to consignees and the duty of booking outgoing goods from the Harbour were performed by the neighbouring M&SMR and SIR as the case might be. These Railways were provided by the Trust with sufficient accommodation within its premises to carry on their business without the intervention of the Trust. The Trust confined itself to the haulage, loading and unloading of wagons within its premises on behalf of the Railways, while the latter collected from owner’s on the Trust’s behalf the charges levied by the Trust for such services.
*Since 1st November 1916 the booking and delivery of rail-bourne goods with the Trust’s premises are being carried out by the Trust instead of by the Railways under suitable working agreements.
*Ownership of the line is owned and worked by the Madras Port Trust.
The ‘Statistics of Working’ show the year-by-year financial results from 1917-18 through to 1936-37. It also details the line lengths varying over the years with 18 miles for 1929-30, then rising to 18.18 miles reducing to 17.17 miles by 1937<ref name=Hist1937>.
== Classification ==
[[Indian Railway Classification]] of 1926 - Class III railway system
== References ==
